Bump Surely, many more must be interested in editing tags easily in tiddler lists? Or am I missing something, e.g do fields totally replace tags? GridPlugin seems like a natural place for it but of course not necessarily so.
I came up with a not-so-good solution using Lewcids TaggerPlugin[1] that at least lets add (but not edit or delete) tags to tiddlers presented in a table: http://edittagtable.tiddlyspot.com/ :-) [1] http://tw.lewcid.org//#TaggerPlugin On Apr 1, 8:21 pm, twgrp <matiasg...@gmail.com> wrote: > @ELS, obviously, but anyone is free to jump in to tell me what I > misunderstand :-) > > GridPlugin[1] is wonderful, rendering tables to show - and even > directly edit - meta data of specified tiddlers; fields, slices and > sections... but not tags. > > Tags are used to filter out tiddlers, but you cannot edit tags in the > grid. I assume the major(?) reason for this is that individual tags > don't have a label, i.e it is tricky to refer to particular tag(s) in > tiddlers. The plugin would be a complete "meta data" control panel if > this was solved. Tags are probably the most popularly used form of > meta data so I think it makes sense to solve this. I've come up with > three IMO so-so ideas and a good one: > > 1) Grid list *specified tags*, i.e instead of a required label it is a > matter of if a named tag *exists or not*. In the macro you enter the > tag name as a column and if it does not exist then the grid shows a > blank field but if it does exist, the tag itself is displayed, ready > for editing. Altho I see value in this, it obviously deviates quite a > bit from the the current 'paradigm' of the plugin. > > 2) Positions as labels, i.e where a tag is physically listed in the > tags field. Positional number as column header. Workable at least for > the first tag, but admittedly not very elegant. > > 3) Append labels to individual tags, or some certain format for > certain tags. Perhaps sticking to the fields notation, i.e by naming > tags like; label1:tag1 label2:tag2 or just certain string as a > prefix. Column header is obviously the prefix. The drawback is you'd > have to keep be aware of this at the time of tagging the tiddlers and > it'd permanently affect the look of the tags. (An interesting aspect > would be if it was possible to append multiple types to a tag, i.e > label1,label2:tag1 or such) > > 4) ...and finally my favorite idea: Let tags be labeled by... tagging > them! I.e so that GridPlugin can list all tiddlers that are tagged > with a tag of a certain type. For example; list all tiddlers tagged > with "BasketBall", "Soccer", etc (unknown amount) that, in turn, are > tagged with "Sport". The column in this case would be "Sport". > > Thoughts? > > :-) > > [1]http://www.tiddlytools.com/#GridPlugin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
